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Private WILLIAM ERNEST JAMES KNIGHTS

Service Number: 5387609
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 July 1944

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY

III. C. 5.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Herbert and Alice May Knights, of Littlemore, Oxford.
  • Personal Inscription GRANT HIM, O LORD, ETERNAL REST; MAY LIGHT PERPETUAL SHINE UPON HIM
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Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 377
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